Tour Through The Eastern Counties Of England, 1722 By Daniel Defoe











































































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In like manner great quantities of heavy goods, and the hops among
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In Like Manner Great Quantities Of Heavy Goods, And The Hops Among The Rest, Are Sent From The Fair To Lynn By Water, And Shipped There For The Humber, To Hull, York, Etc., And For Newcastle-Upon- Tyne, And By Newcastle, Even To Scotland Itself.

Now as there is still no planting of hops in the north, though a great consumption, and the consumption increasing daily, this, says my friend, is one reason why at Stourbridge fair there is so great a demand for the hops.

He added, that besides this, there were very few hops, if any worth naming, growing in all the counties even on this side Trent, which were above forty miles from London; those counties depending on Stourbridge fair for their supply, so the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton, Lincoln, Leicester, Rutland, and even to Stafford, Warwick, and Worcestershire, bought most if not all of their hops at Stourbridge fair.

These are the reasons why so great a quantity of hops are seen at this fair, as that it is incredible, considering, too, how remote from this fair the growth of them is as above.

This is likewise a testimony of the prodigious resort of the trading people of all parts of England to this fair; the quantity of hops that have been sold at one of these fairs is diversely reported, and some affirm it to be so great, that I dare not copy after them; but without doubt it is a surprising account, especially in a cheap year.

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